Internet Television Warning

A recent survey conducted on 707 families with one child by a group of American researchers and published in the magazine „Science” has proved that time spent on the internet is closely related to later aggressive behavior, especially for the age interval 16 – 22 years. Similar remarks are made in France by the Kriegel report, which states that there are effects of internet television violence upon children, young people, and adults. This effect is proportional with the time spent online. You can frequently read press news stating that a teenager hangs himself according to a model seen on the internet; a 13-year-old boy stabs lethally his little sister, 6 years old after watching a horror movie online.

Another teenager attacks a petrol station following instructions taken from the internet. Besides, an 18-year-old boy rapes a 7-year-old girl, and then he declares innocently that he saw a similar scene on the internet television. If a child only watches violent programs, they will make him switch from normal to pathologic. Therefore, internet television owners, who have been able to do so many improvements in order to obtain success, can do some magic and prohibit such programs if children or people who are not stable from the psychical point of view access them.

If you really want to live in a healthy world, before releasing a new internet television, you must think of the target audience very well, in order not to trigger unwanted consequences, which can make you regret your initiative. After all, internet television owners are humans too…

Internet Television And Moral Values

Some programs on internet televisions claim to be natural, therefore people involved in them use a vulgar vocabulary; a tone which can hardly be considered civilized and even a grotesque style. Moral values like decency, discretion, elegance, delicacy, frailty, tenderness, solidarity are sometimes considered ridiculous and they are replaced with the cult of reaching success.

Nowadays, internet television owners want to be considered winners, but they do not think at all of the methods they use. They may use physical force, they may use guns, and they may use cunning, cynical selfishness or aggressive craft. For example, there are some popular programs on internet televisions and on traditional televisions as well, like “Big Brother” which is based on breaking intimacy, on treating people like human Guinea pigs. Such programs are extremely successful, but they are not moral!Internet television has the tendency to distort feelings, humor or competition, as long as there are some interactive programs which are created with and for people having a low cultural level. We do not say that entertainment is not necessary or that each individual must be a fan of Dostoyevsky or Kafka!

The problem is that internet television. especially can influence human behavior. It can model beliefs, as long as viewers may identify themselves with the characters they see and they sometimes adapt these representations to their everyday life. We all enjoy technical progress and we are happy that internet television is a new opportunity, but we must be selective and help our children understand it too.

Internet Television Statistics

Internet television researchers have started from the elementary hypothesis that online television can attract more viewers than newspapers’ readers. In order to watch a new video, people give up to other activities related to family, church, school, friends or books. Internet television is nowadays the most active modeler of attitudes and mentalities.

Most of the people do not read any newspapers and for them online television is the only source of information. To continue with, 95% of high school students watch internet television every day, and out them only 8.7% read something every day. Therefore, internet television owns a de facto monopoly upon modeling the mind of a very important part of the population. Furthermore, if we highlight the diversity of entertainment programs and their content, one can say that sometimes internet television eliminates pertinent information, which is necessary to any adult. Actually, statistics as well have provided the result according to which young people spend on average 175 minutes in front of the computer screen per day, whereas adults, 240 minutes, only for entertainment purposes.Under such circumstances, people in general, not only young ones, need guidance concerning internet television programs.

The bad news is that in prime time violence covers 90% of the programs. On the other hand, if there is no violence, sometimes people are provided cheap humor and low quality music. Statistics conclude too that this low quality music is highly appreciated by 40% of high school students. Such music can be described as rhythm mixed with sexual connotations. Therefore, it is high time internet televisions thought of quality first, and then of profit.

Internet on TV waves

A team of professionals from Microsoft, Philips, Google, Intel, HP and many other famous names are trying to create a new type of internet connection, using the frequency of the old analogical television. As analogical television programs via radio waves are considered inefficient from the point of using the spectrum, regulatory organisms have decided that in a few years televisions will broadcast only digitally. Thus, new technologies can be used for radio broadcasting on the frequencies, which are still free. The European Union for example will switch from analogical to digital until 2012. Some western countries will perform this switch earlier, since 2010. In the USA, the switch from analogical to digital will take place until February 2009.

Obviously, the leaders of global technology could not miss the opportunity. The news about internet broadcasting on the television frequency has emerged when the Federal Commission for Communications in the USA (FCC) has rejected a proposal coming from North America Philips Electronics, Microsoft, Earth Link, Google, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell and so on. The technological alliance of these scientists has proposed the broadcast of the internet signal on frequencies, which are not used by television. FCC has rejected the documentation, motivating that the new type of broadcast can cause interferences. Yet, Kevin Martin, the president of the American regulatory organism has explained that he does not reject the idea. The American agency wants to find a way to broadcast the internet on frequencies, which are not used.

Edmond Thomas, the representative of this technological fusion says that the spectrum can be used without interfering with TV channels transmissions.

Internet television for common people

New internet televisions do not have high budgets so they need audience in order to make profit. Therefore, it is said that the purpose of internet televisions is not, at least at their beginning, to educate common people. Somebody said that the amount of intelligence in the world was constant, whereas the number of people was increasing, continuously and rapidly. Therefore, most internet televisions have a political role and in many countries, politics does not really want to educate people, as an educated nation becomes difficult to manipulate and to control. Moreover, low quality movies are cheaper.

If movies broadcast by internet television were high quality ones, people would not go to the cinema and would not buy any DVDs anymore. Besides, cultural or scientific programs do not have many sponsors because their audience is not high. Then, what does internet television offer? Are all their programs addressed to audience having an IQ under the average?

Well, that is not true, as internet television can as well provide instructive programs related to domains of general interest like health, psychology, music for all tastes, movies for all tastes, culture, gastronomy, or social life. Actually, you can find everything you want on internet television, according to your educational background, from sport to artistic movies, from explicit sex to sites dedicated to religious education.

Nowadays you can find people of real value working in the domain of internet television and really trying to leave something precious behind them, irrespective of the category of people who click on their television site.

Television and 3D internet

3D television and reception of programs on mobile screens are points of maximum interest at the international salon in Berlin, dedicated to electronics for the large public. Some people believe that the future of the television is the internet, and others do not want to hear about such a prediction. Recently, at the international salon of electronic products (IFA) in Berlin experts have presented three-dimensional television, which appears to be the future of the television, even a near future. Television was an invention of the 20^th century.

Many people say that it is outdated and the 21^st century belongs for sure to the internet. This does not mean that traditional television will simply disappear from our everyday life. However, it will change, in order to keep the alert rhythm of modern life. Studies show that people watch less television while they prefer to search the web. In order to survive, television must fusion with the internet. A viewer in the world of the future will sit comfortably in his armchair and will have available about three million television programs. He will choose his favorite one and he will download it.

Apparently, it is in the advantage of the users. Everybody will be satisfied at the programs broadcast by different channels. There is a reverse too. The budget of the TV productions will be established according to the number of viewers. In addition, quality will have to suffer, as televisions will focus on attracting more and more viewers via easy subjects.

Whenever, wherever televisions comes via internet

The computer is for some time the rival of televisions as far as watching movies at home is concerned. Analysts in the domain say that changes in the area are only at the beginning. In a few years, users will get used to resorting to the internet in order to download into the computer or into a mobile device the favorite programs and TV show, live or recorded, filmed from the most favorable angles.

The tendency of switching to the internet television has become clear at a recent edition of a consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, according to international press. Here many companies presented their offer of video online services, for example the American telephone operator SBC and the giant Microsoft

SBC Communications has announced that they have developed a technology to compress television signals, which can be thus transferred quickly via internet to the user’s television. The service has been called IPTV and it will be available in the USA in the near future. The network will have the technical possibility to broadcast TV channels having a series of supplementary facilities, like a football match in which the viewer can choose permanently between six different filming angles.

It is a very good opportunity for us to switch to TV programs business, has declared Randall Stephenson, operations director of SBC. This type of business gives us the chance to obtain an income per user of about 60 dollars per month, which can increase more and more every day to our delight.

Joost

As Vint Cerf, the founder of the internet has predicted, the future of the television is online. His prediction has been preceded by a daring project, which began in 2006. This project is Joost, a service that offers free hundreds of programs and TV serials. At the beginning, though it has been known under the name of Venice Project. Its creators are Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, who have also founded services, which revolutionized the internet, especially concerning communication and file transfer, like Skype and Kazaa.

The purpose of Joost is to offer freely a diversified range of serials and television programs. Thus, its owners have signed contracts with owners like Viacom, and Warner Music. Another important producer in the list of future contracts is FOX Networks.

In order to enjoy the multitude of programs and serials broadcast by Joost you have to do two things. First, you need an account. Up to now, you needed an invitation in order to create an account. However, since 2 October, when the 1.0 beta version was released, Joost is available for anybody. Then you have to download and to install the program bearing the same name. You will need the name and the password you have chosen when you have created the account in order to open the program.

In order to transmit the content, Joost uses P2P TV technology. It offers a better speed than classical transfer of information does because each user proceeds in the same time to download and upload of the programs they watch.

The internet, the television of the future

Any computer owner who has internet connection can say goodbye now to boredom. This is possible thanks to the access to the television via internet. There are some countries where this service can be performed by two kids who know how to program computers.

Therefore, you have now the opportunity to watch television programs directly on the screen of your computer. There are a few families now who do not have a television, or who do not have access to the internet.

For example in student hostels, the internet is more popular than the television; therefore, internet television is most welcome. We do not talk about television channels which broadcast only online, neither about the use of the TV Tuner.

Internet television is only a simple alternative to static television, as laptop owners connected via wireless to the internet can watch MTV 2, for example, on the move. There are such services available in different countries.

Via internet television, you can watch many national and foreign programs, and most of them are provided by the other major operators through special packets. This service is integrally digitalized and it does not need a device installed at home or uncomfortable cables.

Everything is done via computer and with the computer. Besides, users have access to management EPG functions, which offer free alert settings via SMS for favorite programs, mail alerts, or the TV program for any channel a week in advance. All you have to do is apply for internet connection if you have not already done it.

Welcome online

If you want to be informed from the point of view of social, political, and administrative life of your city or of the area, you live in; the good news is that there are online televisions willing to satisfy your curiosity.

You can find online real networks of programs, with materials filmed on the occasion of different events which attract the attention of public opinion, news, reports, interviews, commentaries, etc.

This system of television online is something new in some countries and now some of them are the only ones broadcasting under a certain format. Within a specific format, visitors from that country or from abroad can watch materials about central public administration’s activity, about the presidents or governments, where teams belonging to those televisions go in order to gather materials.

On this purpose, their studios are usually endowed with the most advanced equipment.
Online television channels broadcast in more countries all over the world, therefore they can contribute to the development of close social, political, and cultural relationships.

In the same time with the release of online televisions, many people who live in a specific country or from abroad can access their sites and express their opinions about the materials presented. This is a good idea because interactivity can lead to better programs, to continuous improvement of their activity.

Online television teams are professional and they do their best to take part in the most important events in order to broadcast them immediately for those who want to be informed and read with interest reports, inquiries, and commentaries.

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